Comments on: Events in CSS and Web Design History

By: FeaturePics Images

FeaturePics Images — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 23:27:49 +0000

The Mosaic browser, 1993:
Text-based browser features have been extended to show images.

By: kimblim

kimblim — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 20:29:52 +0000

I have to agree with all the people who picked the Wired Redesign – I remember it as quite the eye opener for a lot of people!

By: Juan

Juan — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 14:51:09 +0000

Dan Steinman cross-browser javascript library: DynAPI.

By: Miles

Miles — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 16:59:46 +0000

CSS Zen Garden – opened my eyes to how much better clean semantic HTML/CSS coding would be for my future web design and development.

By: Erland Flaten

Erland Flaten — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 09:41:08 +0000

Pedagogical books like Head First XHTML and CSS (Oreily) Maybe not high up on the list, but teaching material is important.

I am lecturing in webdesign at Lillehammer University College and my 13 students have no ideas that layoutblocks was made with kinky tabels. The only world they now is strict, floated DIVs, PNGs. Its a great start and I maybe tell them about the browser war when they grow up. Infact. The distribution of IE7 started the day before I was teacking about webgrapics. So I skipped gif. I just had to…

By: Chet

Chet — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 06:17:37 +0000

Birth of Dan Cederholm, Firefox, birth of xHTML, and ofcourse Zen Garden…

By: Joe

Joe — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 23:16:14 +0000

I have to agree CSS Zen Garden is what a friend of mine showed me to prove the real power of CSS. Without this site CSS wouldn't be as widely implemented today. After viewing this site I diligently started studying CSS I've got 3 of Eric's books one in my desk at work! HMM is it fair to nominate the work of Eric Meyer on his site?

By: Brandon

Brandon — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 22:28:46 +0000

The publishing of Designing With Web Standards really sent web standards main-stream, and has become the bench-mark by which new developers have come to judge themselves.

Its’ publishing took web standards from being idealism in email discussion groups, and turned them into the converted rice of workability.

For an entire generation of standardistas Zeldman’s touque has become the iconic emblem of web standards.

By: John Lascurettes

John Lascurettes — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 21:30:11 +0000

One:
To Hell with Bad Browsers. It rallied for the first time a quasi-unionized effort to collectively bring Web design to the next level.

Two:
The amount of time I still have to spend supporting not just IE, but multiple IEs for clients. It doesn’t matter if it’s CSS hacks or conditional comments (ms-proprietary hacks). It still takes way too much time to whip IE 6 and 7 into shape. If IE 5 and 5.5 or IEmac are included (and they usually are), then look out for the trouble-shooting time!

Three:
To Hell with Bad Browsers Again! It hasn’t happened yet, but I think we’re overdue. Netscape 4 is dead, but Explorer (even including 7) is still holding back the level of design that (x)HTML has been capable of for over 7 years. Progressive enhancement my ass. If you’ve got the “wow” in a modern browser, the client wants to see it in his lame-o Explorer browser too. Can’t we just boot that sucker to curb yet?

By: Michaël Guitton

Michaël Guitton — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 16:55:21 +0000

1. Cascading Style Sheets: Designing for the Web, 1st Edition 2. WebReview.com's Style Sheet Reference Guide 3. IE5/Mac 4. Wired redesign 5. CSS Zen Garden

By: italo losero

italo losero — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 10:58:58 +0000

w3c, DOM, firefox, complexspiral, csszengarden, firebug.
First of all, open & free standards.

By: Marco Rosella

Marco Rosella — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 13:37:12 +0000

Again the CSS Zen Garden and ‘Designing with web standards’.

By: Tim Wright

Tim Wright — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 06:34:58 +0000

I have to agree with some folks and say espn.com. they were the first site i tried to mimic when searching for in-depth css

By: Elaine Jackson

Elaine Jackson — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 21:34:10 +0000

I have to say that I thought that CSS Reboot, the first of which was I believe was in the Spring 2005, was and is pretty inspiring. I like the fact that the focus of the contest has shifted from pure looks to an emphasis on applying web standards to the the overall design and HTML.

By: Gabriele Romanato

Gabriele Romanato — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 21:10:49 +0000

I think the most important thing is still to come:
we have to break down the digital divide between developers and authors.
Nowadays there is a mutual incomprehension between the two counterparts.
Eric, you know what I mean.

bye,
Gabriele